。 In the winter of Jian'an 19, the Jingzhou War, which lasted for more than half a year, finally ended with Lu Su sending another envoy to Jiangling, and Liu Bei and Sun Quan signed the armistice agreement on the exchange of prisoners and exchanged them for retention.

After the armistice agreement was signed, the two families would still be bounded by Xiangshui, and Liu Bei exchanged Lu Xun and 3,000 captured Wu soldiers for Guan Ping, Zhou Cang, Wang Fu and others who were captured by Lü Meng in Maicheng. However, because he was furious about the betrayal of the alliance by Eastern Wu, he allowed Pang Tong, Ma Liang and others who accompanied the army to persuade him in turn, but still denied the request of the Eastern Wu side to try to restore the alliance, and only agreed to exchange prisoners and ceased the war, and even said to Lu Su in a reprimanding tone in front of Lu Su: "Lone because he has always trusted Mr., so he only left Yun Chang to guard Jingzhou, and moved most of his army to Hanzhong to resist Cao, but Sun Quan abandoned the alliance with his vest, so that the second brother of Lone was almost killed in the hands of Lu Meng, and what he did, people and gods were angry!" How can you still have the face to talk about the covenant again, you can go back immediately, and Hugh will lose the dignity of your existence! ”

Lu Su returned with a face full of shame, Sun Quan had the intention not to sign the contract, and sent an envoy to Cao Cao to ask for a joint attack on Jiangling. Although Cao Cao was a little moved by this to hurt the vitality of the Sun and Liu families, he had no choice but to lose too much in Hanzhong and Fancheng before, although there were 100,000 troops in Xiangyang at this time, most of them were soldiers who were in a hurry to gather and less trained. In addition, the recapture of Xiangyang this time has not lost its dignity, and the long-term campaign has made the soldiers below have no will to fight, and sometimes have headaches, so they rejected Sun Quan's request, leaving only Cao Ren to lead 20,000 troops to garrison in Xiangyang, and the self-unified army returned to Xuchang to recuperate, and no longer cared whether the two families of Sun and Liu were fighting or peace.

In this way, Sun Quan had no choice but to sign a contract with Liu Bei first, after the two sides released each other's prisoners, Sun Quan took 50,000 troops back to Chaisang, Liu Bei left Zhao Yun more than 10,000 people to assist Guan Yu in restoring order in Nanjun, and led the remaining 30,000 horses back to CD The night before Liu Bei returned to CD, Liu Bei specially summoned Zhuge Song. Although as soon as he arrived in Jiangling, Liu Bei had praised Zhuge Song in front of everyone and almost exhausted the words of praise, but looking at the extremely serious expressions of the civil officials and military generals sitting on both sides of Liu Bei, Zhuge Song knew that Liu Bei's summoning of him this time was likely to have a great deal to do with the future personnel distribution in Jingzhou.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhuge Song saluted and sat down, Liu Bei sighed, and then said to Zhuge Song with a guilty face: "Song'er, tomorrow Gu will leave this place to return to CD, Jingzhou can be preserved this time, and all the credit is in you!" After that, he glanced at Guan Yu sitting on the left-hand side.

Guan Yu's face was ashamed, and he said: "This crisis is all due to Guan Mou's carelessness of the enemy, and he almost ruined the great cause of the eldest brother to revive the Han family!" Saying that, he actually stood up and walked in front of Zhuge Song and gave a deep salute: "Originally, Jingzhou was lost and recovered this time was all the work of the general, Guan Mou really had no face to occupy this position again, but if Guan Mou went like this, it would become a laughing stock for the ages, and I hope that the general will temporarily lend this place to me, and after Guan Mou's meritorious service is shameful, he will return it to the general's command!" ”

Zhuge Song was so shocked that he immediately got up from his seat and picked up Guan Yu, and said in a panic: "Why should the prince be like this? Song'er how can he de, but he never thought of taking on the heavy responsibility of ruling this place! ”

"But you are already a general of Pingxi, only under Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and now you have made this great contribution, if the lord does not let you rule this place, how can you serve the public in the future?" Pang Tong broke the mystery of this matter with a remark on the side, and his tone was slightly sour.

Zhuge Song stood on the spot, he didn't think that he would get a very rich reward for his great achievements in Jingzhou after he settled down in Jingzhou, but because of the close relationship between Guan Yu and Liu Bei, no matter how much he thought about it, he never dared to think about the possibility of replacing himself as a pastor in Jingzhou. At this time, I heard Pang Tong say this, and knew that Liu Bei actually wanted Guan Yu to lead this place, and the reason why this was the case was really to help him give himself an explanation.

And Zhuge Song woke up in Kong Ming's grass house, and for so long he had been thinking about how to help Guan Yu defend Jingzhou, thwart Lu Meng's conspiracy, and avoid the tragedy of Shu Han's collapse. Today, this wish has been fulfilled, but he has not returned to the original world. Now in full view of everyone, he decided to simply continue like this, until he helped Liu Bei unify the world, maybe at that time he would have no reason to stay in this world, and he could retire and return to the real world.

Zhuge Song, who had made up his mind, bowed deeply to Liu Bei and said: "The king left Song'er in Jingzhou, Dongwu betrayed the alliance, and it was naturally Song'er's business to try to assist General Guan to repel it, and Jingzhou's loss and recovery was not all Song'er's work alone, including General Guan, all the civil and military generals had great trust in Song'er, and were willing to act according to the plan and cooperate seamlessly, especially General Mi's deception to Lu Meng, enduring humiliation, and being an important factor in the success of the great achievement, so great that Song'er did not dare to lead it alone!" General Guan flooded the Seventh Army, Megatron China, although he was trapped by the villain for a while, he was still the best candidate to lead this place, Song'er has not yet reached the crown, although there are occasional strange strategies for surprise, unbearable daily management of such a large state, if you really receive Jingzhou herd, it is not conducive to protecting the territory and the people, if the king wants to reward, you can find another place, and when Song'er slowly has experienced, he can be at that time, and then give Qingxu the land is not better? ”

"Hahahaha, I didn't expect you to have a small appetite at a young age, you don't want half of Jingzhou today, he actually wants to be alone in two states one day! Good, good! Lone is waiting for the day when you receive the two states, and the Cao thief must have been broken by then, so why not pity the officials to reward the heroes! Liu Bei heard that Zhuge Song was determined not to take Jingzhou, and said such a suitable reason, and his uneasiness was swept away. Everyone in the hall also smiled, sweeping away the previous tension and depression.

"But the great work can be remembered temporarily, but it can't be completely just counted! You said that you can find another place, Wuling is too small, and Gu should replace it with a bigger place for you! As he spoke, he frowned, thought for a moment and said: "Liu Feng rebelled against his son, seeing that his uncle was in trouble and could not be saved, Lone has decided to punish him to go back to the CD to reflect on it behind closed doors, so you will replace him to lead the cities of Shangyong, this place connects Hanzhong and Jingzhou, and the location is extremely important. ”

Although Shangyong is bigger than Wuling, it is a mountain city after all, and the economic conditions are actually no better than Wuling, which is close to Dongting.

Liu Bei saw that Zhuge Song was silent, because this idea was also improvised, and after saying it, he was a little embarrassed, so he simply increased the code directly: "Gu also knows that the taxes that Shangyong can collect are limited, which is not conducive to expanding armaments." In this way, all the military and political powers in addition to Shangyong will be given to you, and Wuling Gu will not be recovered, and you will choose one person to take care of it, and the balance of the tax collection and use can be freely transferred to Shangyong for use, so you can do it after all! ”

Liu Bei said this, Zhuge Song knew that he had no reason to refuse, and the position of Shangyong was important, and he was on the front line that could directly confront Cao Cao, which was more conducive to him than Wuling to help Liu Bei's Northern Expedition, so he nodded and agreed. It's just that Liu Feng has a special identity, and Liu Bei must personally bring someone to send him before he dares to go to Shangyong to take office, so as not to cause Liu Feng to change.

Liu Bei agreed without thinking about it, so he changed his route back to CD, and decided to stay in Jiangling for two more days, and let Zhuge Song arrange a stop, so that he could go to Shangyong together. (End of Volume 2)